%0 Journal Article
%T THE HANDBOOK OF BLENDED LEARNING:Global Perspectives, Local Designs
%A Reviewed by Alev ATES
%J The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
%D 2009
%I Anadolu University, Eskisehir
%X THE HANDBOOK OF BLENDED LEARNING:Global Perspectives, Local Designs Curtis J. Bonk (ed.) and Charles R. Graham (ed.), Jay Cross (Foreword),Micheal G. Moore Foreword) ISBN: 978-0-7879-7758-0 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Pfeiffer Pages: 624 March 2006.Reviewed by Alev ATESPhD Student at Curriculum and Instruction,Lecturer at Computer Education and Instructional Technologies,Faculty of Education, Ege University, Izmir, TURKEYBlended learning or blended e-learning sounds like aconfusing term at first since it is relatively a new term fortodayˇ®s instructors. However, Moore reports that it can betraced as far back as the 1920s which was called ¨Dsupervisedcorrespondence studyˇ¬. For clarification of the term ¨Dblendedlearningˇ¬ and informing the instructors about its commonpractices worldwide, the book provides readers a comprehensive resource about blended learning. It aims to raise awareness of adopting BL from institutional perspectives of many chapter authors from Australia, Korea, Malaysia, the UK, Canada and South Africa who are distinguished people mostly in instructional technology era. With this book, I guess the editors aim at both showing the big picture at macro level and present micro level examples which provide details of blended learning applications among their strengths and weaknesses. As introduced in the book, one ofthe editors Curtis J. Bonk, a former corporate controller and CPA, is now professor of educational psychology as well as instructional systems technology at Indiana University; the other editor Charles R. Graham is an assistant professor of instructionalpsychology and technology at Brigham Young University with a focus on technologymediated teaching and learning.The book is of eight parts including 39 chapters besides two forewords. Therefore, theorganization of this review is considered to take a holistic view for each parts while emphasizing the original and/or impressive aspects that chapter authors provided and it concludes with a summary paragraph including personal comments about the bookand the blended learning itself.The book starts with discussing the importance of blended learning (BL). The authors implied that in 2003, ASTD (American Society for Training and Development) identified blended learning as one of the top ten trends to emerge in the knowledge industry.Also, the prediction of increase in the use of BL for delivering training at companies and higher education institutes is common worldwide.Originally, this book contains two forewords. In the first forewords section written byJay Cross who is introduced as a
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